Oh, no no no, how could I be so blind

1/19/17

6/22/17

Difference between two drawings = 154 days, aka an average of 5 months, or around 3696 hours. 

HEEEEEEEEEEY, LOOK AT THAT IMPROVEMENT. Do you see the limbs in the first drawing, imao. 

And the edge of the cliff. 

Oh, and the background too. 

Not to mention- Tisp's expression and posture, mhm! 

Ah- the angle too.. 

PLUUS, the colors..! 

And on top of everything? The shading, mmmmm.. 

The one to the right is more of an unfinished sketch that I used to mess around with color theory and stuff; the one to the left was created for the exact same purpose, but was finished instead of left around, lol. It still shows the improvement I've made from the beginning of this year though... hmmm... I believe I need to focus on;

- expressing emotions more through angles, colors, perspectives, expressions, body posture, and etc. 
- making my art more dynamic! 
- focusing on focal points and "leading the eye" through a piece 
- creating more texture, and studying how light reflects off of different things 
- learn to use negative space to my advantage in order to create a better composed piece 
- drawing HUMANS and drawing basic face details 

I will be able to do this by; 
- studying artistic interpretations of expressions and replicating them (Skitea or the artist in 'Love Trial'), studying and drawing from references of expressive people (humans) 
- studying artistic interpretations of dynamic poses (Skitea, Tamberella, 1Apple-Fox1, and others), looking up references for dynamic poses and drawing them, using a line of action to create basic dynamicness, thinking about the focal points + 'flow/ path the eye follows' in a piece // GESTURE DRAWING USING https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/
- think more about the placement of each individual element within a "great/ amazing" drawing, (not a "good" or "okay") and have the most obvious focal point separated from the other focal points by extreme contrast (color, space, texture, saturation, flow, etc.) 
- replicating a digital painting done by Tamberella or someone else with extremely good fur texturing 
- draw a bunch of composition-al pieces with the main focus on the background, and less focus on the character! draw some silhouettes if you need to; use references for the background 
- using the method Tamberella prescribed! xD // http://tamberella.deviantart.com/art/How-to-Draw-ANYTHING-594318716// FIGURE DRAWING USING https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

FINAL NOTES TO SELF; 
- xxxx (I had stuff to add, but now it's slipped my mind.)